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More
snow than falls in an entire year- Dec 23, 2004
- Evansville, Indianareceived
19.3 inches
of snow, well over the normal yearly total of 14.2 inches, and
shattering the record for any single day.
Paducah, KY got 14 inches, again, well over the normal snowfall of
10 inches for the entire year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6746622/

As
Antarctica enters summer, the ice should be melting … but it’s
not. December 2004 – The
thick sea ice
that accumulates over the winter in Antarctica’s Ross Sea and
McMurdo Sound should
have melted by now, says NASA, but McMurdo
Sound remains frozen solid. In fact, more ice has
accumulated in
the sound this year than any other year on record.
(Thanks
to Craig Parkinson for this info.)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12622

Most
tornadoes on record– 31 Dec 04 –
According to ABC news, we had 1722 tornadoes last
year, the most
on record. I believe this is yet another indication that the
ice-age cycle is swinging into place.

Los Angeles suffered its wettest December day since 1931,
pounded by a record
108mm (4.3 inches) of rain in one day. - Dec
29 -This was
almost double the amount that normally falls during the entire
month, and more than double
the old record of 53mm (2.1 inches)
set on the 28th December 1931.http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/29122004news.shtml

More
snow than normally falls in an entire year- Dec 23,
2004 - The National Guard rescued
stranded travelers in Indiana as
record-breaking snows shut down I-64 from Evansville to the
Illinois
state line. Evansville received 19.3 inches of snow, well
over the normal yearly total of 14.2 inches,
and shattering the
record for any single day.

In Kentucky: Paducah
got 14 inches, again well over the normal snowfall of 10 inches
for the entire
year. Amarillo, Texas received 3.7 inches of snow,
more than triple the previous record for the date,
while up to 20
inches of snow fell in parts of Ohio, leaving more than 300,000
homes and businesses
without power. Meanwhile, residents of
Arkansas are looking forward to only the ninth white
Christmas in
120 years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6746622/

Twelve degrees below normal in both Canada and
Russia - 16 Dec 04
The high temperature in
the north Canadian city of Eureka measured
only minus 43.2C, twelve degrees below normal for December.

Russia 20 degrees Celsius below
normal - Dec 13 2004 Temperatures in the town of Vitim, on
the
river Lena, rose to only -44C. The normal high in December
is near -25C. Even at night, the temperature
normally falls to
"only" -32C.

One month's rain in 30 hours -
Dec 13 2004 - Lanzarote, the most northeasterly of the
Canary Islands,
received 34mm of rain in 30 hours, close to the
December average total rainfall of 36mm.

One month's rain in three days Catania
(between Sicily and Calabria)e - Dec 13, 2004-
Catania has accumulated 83mm of rain in three days. Average
rainfall for the entire month is just 99mm.www.metoffice.co.uk

Temperatures
plummet in Turkey. 9 Dec 04 - In
Erzurum
,
Turkey, temperatures plummeted
to a high of -10.3 C (13 F), and
a low of -22.7 C (-9 F). The averages are -1 C and -9 C
respectively.
Heavy
rains and thunderstorms lash Sardinia,
the second largest island in the
Mediterranean
,
causing
floods and mudslides that devastated a number of
towns.
Solenzaro, on the east coast of Corsica, received 47mm of rain
in 18 hours, about half the December
average rainfall.
In Australia, Coolangatta and Murwillumbah
received 160 mm and 166 mm of rain respectively just
since
December 6, well over the averages for the entire month.
In
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the town of Turaif
received a month’s worth of rain (16mm) in 6 hours
...as
compared to the 12 mm that normally falls during the entire month of
December.http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/09122004news.shtml

Heaviest
rain in half a century in
Croatia. Dec 7, 2004 - The southern coastal city of
Marina
was inundated with about 1.5 metres (5 feet) of water, leaving
residential areas only accessible by boat.
Sibenik, an historic
coastal city, was also hit hard. A world heritage Cathedral,
several other churches,
museums, municipal buildings and scores of
houses all suffered damage from the inundation. A
spokesman for
the city said that rain of such intensity hadn’t been seen since
1949. Further north,
the city of
Split
received 142mm (about 5.5 inches) of rain in 18 hours, about 30mm
more rain
normally falls in the entire month of December
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/07122004news.shtml

Australia
- 6 Dec 2004 - Western NSW has endured rainfalls of 100 to 225mm.
Average rainfall
for Bourke in NSW for December is 36mm and
Adelaide
25mm.
Brisbane’s December average rainfall is 106mm, while 242mm fell
in Miami; 156mm in Coolangata
and 197mm at Oyster Creek.http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/08122004news.shtml

Ten
times normal rainfall in
Texas - 5 Dec 2004 - Texas just experienced its wettest
November
on record, and the records go back to 1895. Major cities
throughout the state accumulated November
rainfall totals that
ranged from three to nearly ten times normal amounts.
Austin
recorded 350mm rain,
which is 526% of normal.
June 2004 was also the wettest June on record in
Texas
. Now it looks as though 2004 may turn
out to be the state’s
wettest year on record.
These record rainfall totals have been achieved without the aid of
tropical storms or hurricanes.http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/05122004news.shtml

Winter
has begun in the
Ukraine, with snow storms blowing across the region. - Nov 26,
2004
Synop,
Turkey, received 50mm of rain 24 hours, as opposed to the monthly
average of 72mm.
Almost one month's rain in one day in Zonguldak,
Turkey. (90mm or rain in one day. Normal
November rainfall is
119mm.)
The weather remains unsettled across a good part of southeast
Europe. 126mm of rain in
Beirut
in just 12 hours, exceeding the November average of 119mm.
Rome,
Georgia
, received 80mm of rain on Thanksgiving day, only 20mm short of
the November
average for the entire month of 100mm.

Turkey 22 degrees colder than normal - Nov 24, 2004 - The
mercury plunged to minus 22 Celcius
in the city of Erzerum in
eastern Turkey, some twenty degrees below the average November
low of
minus 2 degrees.

More than one month's rain in one day
in Argentina - Nov 24, 2004 -69 mm of rain in the city of
Santiago del Estero as opposed to the normal rainfall for
the month of November of 63 mm in November.www.metoffice.co.uk

Cairns, on Queensland's
northeastern coast, received 80 mm of rain in 36 hours. The
average for the
entire month of November is 94 mm.www.metoffice.co.uk

35 mm fell on Wichita Falls, Texas in 24 hours, just 2 mm shy of
the 37 mm November average rainfall.www.metoffice.co.uk

A deep depression currently over Kazakhstan dumped an 18 mm
rainfall equivalent of snow on the
Russian Caspian city of
Astrakhan during the 36 hour interval ending 0600 GMT on
Wednesday. The
average November rainfall for the location is just
12 mm.www.metoffice.co.uk

Cold
artic blast hammers most of northern Europe from the British Isles
to western Russia. – Nov 20, 2004 - In Aberdeen, Scotland,
temperatures stayed below freezing
all day. A normal
November high would be 8C. Snow fell across many
parts of the UK. The storm dumped 30.2 mm
of rain on Sennybridge,
Wales,along withrain to other parts of Europe. 15mm of rain fell in Plock,
Poland in 18 hours, well above the average for the entire month of
32mm. Meanwhile, in Moscow,
temperatures rose to only -2C, as
opposed to the normal high of 2C.http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/19112004news.shtml

Winter
arrived in the Balkans during the weekend - Nov 16, 2004 - Heavy
snow brought down power
lines and disrupted traffic across most of
Bosnia-Herzegovina. Many roads in the Dinaric Alps were
completely
closed by snow.
Temperatures in
Dubrovnik
fell from a balmy 14 Celsius to a piercing 6 degrees within a
matter of hours.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/15112004news.shtml

Winter
has begun in the Austrian Alps. Nov 7, 2004 - Sonnblick has
already received the rainfall
equivalent to snow of 50mm in two
days. (Normal rainfall for the entire month of November is
117mm.)
Meanwhile, temperatures fell to -11C, as opposed to the norm of
-10C.http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/08112004news.shtml

Britain
could see its coldest winter of the century- 13 Oct 2004 – “Prepare for one of the coldest
winters on
record,”
say the forecasters who predicted this summer's rain.
(Thanks to Chris Cole, Isle of Wight, UK - also to Michael Cunningham
in Liverpool - for this info.)

Mount
St. Helens glacier growing 50 feet per year. September 20, 2004 - Located inside the
volcanic
crater formed during its 1980 eruption, America’s youngest
glacier is also its fastest growing
glacier. Scientists estimate
that the thickness of the glacier has increased by nearly 50 feet
per year.
“Today,” says a brochure published by the US Forest
Service, “the snow and ice in the crater is equal
in volume to
all of the pre-eruption glaciers on Mount St. Helens combined.”Why is no one bothering
to tell us about this? (Oct 12,
2004. With the temperature inside the crater now standing at
1,100
degrees Fahrenheit, my guess is that the glacier is melting.)

World’s
Largest Volcano Might Erupt -
September 14, 2004 - Mauna Loa is preparing to erupt
for the first
time in two decades, say seismologists at the Hawaiian Volcano
Observatory on the Big
Island. More
than 350 earthquakes have been recorded far beneath the
13,677-foot-high Mauna
Loa since July, said Don Swanson,
scientist-in-charge at the observatory. ``Mauna Loa is grumbling,
growling and getting ready to come out of its den.''
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/storymain.jsp?number=1

Record
early snowfall in Anchorage- 26 Sep 2004 – Power lines stretch and snap as six
inches
of heavy wet snow blanket Anchorage, Alaska. "This is the most snow we've had on the
ground this
early in the season," meteorologist Dan Keirns
said late Saturday afternoon. The previous record for
largest
early snow was 2.6 inches on Sept. 29, 1965. On average, the city
gets its first snow by mid-
October, according to Weather Service
statistics. (By Peter Porco, Anchorage Daily News)http://adn.com/alaska/story/5601569p-5532887c.html

Second
coldest month on record at the South Pole- 23 Sep 2004 – “We missed the coldest
month ever
recorded here at the Pole by only six tenths of a degree - minus
89.0 degrees Fahrenheit
recorded in August 1987,” says Troy Wiles, a member of the
medical team at the Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station. (Not
exactly “global warming,” is it?)http://www.record-eagle.com/2004/aug/poley29.htm

Heavy snowfall advisory in Grande Prairie,
Alberta - Sep 8, 2004 - With 2 cm of snow already
on the ground,
another 10 cm (4 inches) is forecast tonight. Snow is also
forecast for Edmonton tonight.
"Snow this early in the
season is not unheard of," says one Canadian resident,
"but it's certainly unusual."
It shouldn't
arrive until the middle of October.

Canadian
summer temps coldest on record – August 22, 2004
- “It looks like it is
going to be the
coldest summer on record since data started being
collected in the 19th century," says Rick
Walls, a
meteorologist at Environment Canada in Winnipeg. In
Saskatoon, temperatures on July 29 plunged to
.07 degrees, the
coldest since record keeping began in the area in 1892. Meanwhile,
on July 23,
temperatures inWinnipeg fell to three degrees, the lowest on record
since 1872.In the
Canadian
Prairies, temperatures for May through mid-August
averaged three degrees below normal, beating
records that go back
to 1872, “completely
eclipsing lows of 14.2 C which were recorded in 1883
and 1907.”

Frost
every month of the year -
20 Aug 2004 - At
least seven records for cold were shattered
last night
including in Winnipeg, where temperatures dropped to zero,
breaking a record set in 1895.
The cold also spread to
Saskatchewan, with temperatures dipping to minus three degrees in
Broadview. Winnipeg also saw snow pellets on Wednesday.
Environment Canada has no previous
record of snow falling in
August. Farmers worry about the early frost, especially since a
killing frost
also struck last month in a small area south of
Brandon. The first killing frost in the fall usually comes
in the
third week of September. "It looks like this
yearcould
be one of the very few years – the
first year I've ever heard of
– that we've had a frost in every month of the year," says
Scott Day,
Manitoba Agriculture representative.http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/08/20/mb_mb_col040820col040820.html

Weather
in central Canada resembles winter- “These are supposed to be
the dog days of
summer. But for people living in central and
eastern parts of the country, it seems summer has gone
to the
dogs.”
”Meteorologists say the current weather pattern over central
Canada resembles winter -- a huge
mass of cold air from the North,
stuck over the Prairies. As the system moves east, there's more
cold air to fill the void.
“Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec will be experiencing
cooler temperatures for weeks.
“Farmers have also been hit hard by the inconsistent weather. A
freak snowstorm in May delayed
seeding for farmers in Manitoba.
Then cool temperatures in June and July shortened the growing
season. (from
CTV,the Canadian
Television Network)
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1092182512751_87591712?hub=Canada
(Thanks to Charlie Worton for this info)

All-time record cold August across Minnesota
- Aug 19, 2004 – “Late summer vacations have
brought sweatshirts and frost across Minnesota and Wisconsin this
month … instead
of the usual
steamy and sultry dog days of August.” Here are the
top five coldest Augusts on record for
Alexandria, St. Cloud, and
Eau Clair through August 18th.”

This morning’s low temperatures ranged from 10 to 20 degrees
below normal, and another very cool morning is expected tomorrow.(from
the National Weather Service, Twin/Cities/Chanhassen, Minnesota)

August
frost in Minnesota
- August 19, 2004 - Overnight temperatures in Tower, MN dropped to
25F, while Embarrass dipped to 27. International Falls reported a
new record low of 36F, while Duluth dropped to 37F, setting
another record low. Morris reported a record low of 38, while
Hutchinson tied the record low of 42 set in 1967. In Austin,
temperatures fell to 40F, just 2 degrees short of tying a record
set some 37 years ago.http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S1931.html?cat=64

Storm
shuts down New Zealand capital.August 18, 2004 – “A severe storm has battered much of New Zealand,
leaving Wellington all but cut off.Wind gusts of more than 100 mph (160 km/h) tore roofs from buildings and
downed trees and electric lines across the lower North Island,
blocking highways and railroads, and halting plane and sea ferry
services. Ferries between the North and South Island were halted,
while snow and debris blocked roads across the south of the North
Island.”

Record
low temperatures in 18 states on August 7.If we had had record high
temperatures in 18 states, it would have been plastered across the
front page of almost every newspaper in the country. But have you
seen anything about this in your paper? I doubt it.
See daily listing of record
low temperaturesacross
the United States.

Record low temperatures in
Winnipeg.Daily
high temperatures in Winnipeg
averaged only 19.5C (67.1F) during May, June, and July, breaking
the old record set in 1950.
The normal daily high average for these months is 22.5C (72.5F),
says a report issued by
Environment Canada issued on August 3, 2004. Temperature records
began in Winnipeg
in 1874. (Thanks
to Robert Hotchkiss for this info)

“Europeans
still waiting for summer”– July 17, 2004 – Sleigh rides and snowball fights in
July as the month turns almost glacial. “Mulled wine instead of
of wine coolers. Thermostats set on high. Spring has come and
gone, fall approaches—and Europeans are still waiting for
summer.”In the
United Kingdom, British Gas implemented its winter emergency
contingency plan in response to a surge in demand for heat.
Temperatures in Shrewsbury in northwest England plummeted to 53
degrees, the coldest ever recorded in the area for the month of
July.

Hailstorm hammers Edmonton-
July 11, 2004 -“A pounding hailstorm hammered
Edmonton late yesterday afternoon, turning roads into
lakes, flooding homes and damaging parts
of Canada's largest mall. Holes were ripped in the roof
over West Edmonton Mall's indoor
amusement and ice rink, sending water cascading to the
floor."(Excerpt from
The Toronto Star, at http://www.thestar.com)

Ice and snow force road closures across New South Wales.
July 18, 2004. Snow has blanketed much of the south-eastern part
of the state with heavy falls in the Blue Mountains, west of
Sydney, and the Southern Highlands.http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33455

Thirteen
inches of rain in New Jersey in two days! July 13, 2004. Just imagine if that amount of precipitation had fallen
as snow. When meteorologists try to predict how much snow will
fall if a rainstorm should turn to snow, they add a zero. One inch
of rain, therefore (add a zero) would translate into 10 inches of
snow. New Jersey would have been buried under 130 inches of snow -
more than ten feet – in two days. That’s how ice ages begin. See
daily listing of record
low temperaturesacross
the United States.

Temperatures in southern
Ontario well below normal - June 20, 2004. Temperatures
in Petawawa dropped to 2.7C, as opposed to the average June
low of 8.9C.

Late-spring
snowstorm rages across portions of southern Canada
- May 13, 2004: Ten inches of fresh snow fell in Brandon,
Manitoba. This is unusual this late in the season. The high
temperature in Brandon reached only 34F, as opposed to the normal
high for May 12th of 63F. Elsewhere in Canada, seven
inches of heavy, wet snow fell on Dryden, Ontario.
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/int_news.asp?partner=accuweather

Slowdown
in ocean currents may bring ice age to Britain.Circulation of the North
Atlantic is slowing down. This could signal a major upheaval in
the climate of Britain, says a study published today in Science.
The global climate can lurch from warm to cold in a few decades
when ocean circulation patterns change.Satellite measurements of sea surface
height show there has been a slowdown in the anticlockwise
circulation of surface water just below the Arctic Circle in the
North Atlantic over the past decade.Whether this slowdown is a
consequence of basic global warming or part of a mid-term climate
cycle it is too early to know, said Prof Peter Rhines of the
University of Washington, Seattle.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F04%2F16%2Fwice16.xml

Mozambique: More than one month's rain in 30 hours on Pemba,
Kermadec Islands.
More than one month's rain in 36 hours in Raoul - April 18,
2004: The volcanic island of Raoul, located within the Kermadec
Islands, about 1000 km northeast of New Zealand, received 139mm of
rain in 36 hours. Average April rainfall is 117mm.
http://www.metoffice.com/weather/index.html#NEWS1

"Best winter in recent memory" for Alpine and
Pyrenees ski season - April 8, 2004: Record levels of snow in
Austria. "We have had the best season ever," said
Wolfgang Breitfuss, tourism director of Saalbach-Hinterglemm.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3600019.stm

Extreme cold in Ukraine and Crimea - April 7, 2004:
Temperatures plummeted to -16 Celsius (3 F), killing off much of
the regions fruit crops. Severe frosts last winter, followed by a
summer drought, had already devastated thousand of hectares of
Winter and Spring crops.

Western Australia temperatures 11°C below
normal - April 1, 2004: The normal higj March temperatures in
Carnegie, 530km N of Kalgoorlie, is 33.9C, but its high for the
five days up to and including today have been 22, 20, 29, 23.5 and
18.5. http://www.australianweathernews.com/news/2004/040401.SHTML

March 2004 wettest month in Singapore since 1913 - March
17, 2004 - "So far this month, over 550 mm (around 22 inches)
of rain has fallen, beating the March monthly record set in 1913.
Meanwhile, January of 2004 was the wettest in 30 years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/17032004news.shtml

Australia: more than one month's rain in one day in southern
Queensland.
Morocco: temperatures 6.6°C below average and three month's rain
in two days,
Canada: northwest temperatures 5.1°C below normal - March 15,
2004: hhttp://www.metoffice.com/weather/index/htm.#NEWS

Record
snowfall in Sioux City, Iowa. 15 Mar 2004.
Monday’s snowfall of 18.4 inches broke the old March record set
in 1890. It was the second snowiest day in Sioux City history. (The biggest one-day snowstorm that Sioux City has ever
received was 20.4 inches.)

Heaviest snowfall in Turkey in 70 years -
March 5, 2004: "A British man hiking in a mountainous region
of Turkey has died in an avalanche after the area was hit by its
heaviest snow fall for 70 years."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3537665.stm

Worst
snow in South Korea in
100 years- Mar 5 2004 -
Seoul recorded its heaviest March snowfall in 100 years. Meanwhile
in central Korea schools and roads were closed due to heavy snow.
Daejon received 43cm of snow.

Largest snowfall in 19 years in Labrador. Feb 28, 2004.
An extraordinary 111 centimeters of snow has fallen on Cartwright,
Groswater Bay, since Thursday. The area may yet receive another
couple of centimeters this evening. This info comes from
Environment Canada's Official Canadian Weather Warnings.

Much colder than
normal in the U.K. Feb 27, 2004. It was especially cold in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where the temperature reached only 0.9C,
around 7 degrees colder than normal. In Boscombe Down,
temperatures dipped to minus 8.3C, about 10 degrees below
normal. And in Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, where 108mm of
rain, sleet and snow has fallen over the last four days, the
amount that would normally fall during the entire month of
February.
www.metoffice.co.uk

Nova Scotia remained under
a state of emergency Saturday
as authorities struggled to clear a record-breaking snowfall, even as
new heavy snowfall warnings were issued for some parts of the
province. February 21, 2004. With the forecast calling for at least 15
more centimeters (6 inches) of snow by Sunday, it was apparent that
the job of clearing the 95 centimeters (37 inches) still clogging many
side streets was about the get tougher. The city of Halifax ordered
anyone not involved in essential services off the streets Friday night. Anyone caught on the streets could have had
their vehicles seized and faced a fine up to $1,000. It was the first
time in memory that the city had imposed a curfew.

Code Black' Blizzard Paralyzes Eastern Canada.Feb
19, 2004. Two of Canada's Maritime provinces declared a state of
emergency after being hit by a powerful blizzard that forced even
snowplows to stay off the road.Prince
Edward Island and Nova Scotia were slammed by 26 inches of snow.
Combined with winds of up to 60 mph, this created whiteout conditions
across much of the region and practically shut down the entire
province. Nova Scotia declared the first-ever "Code Black,"
according to CBC News. Heavy snowfall also hit parts of southern New
Brunswick.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55296-2004Feb19.html

Freak
Snowstorm Causes Chaos In Greece.
February 13, 2004. A
sudden freak
snowstorm raged across Athens and the rest of Greece,
catching residents
by surprise and causing chaos.

Temperatures
plunged as the worst
snowstorms in decades pounded the entire country,
grounding
planes,
closing ports and highways and stranding thousands of people
at bus
stops and train stations.

The
storm, which has already coated Athens
with up to 50 centimeters of
snow,
forced closure of some roads, leaving
some towns snowed-in as temperatures plunged below zero. The
Acropolis,
symbol of the city, was closed because of the slippery
marble stairway
leading to the temple site.

Schools
across the country were shut as the
cold spell gripped the whole of
Greece,
which prides itself on its 300 days of sunshine a year. Temperatures
in northern
Greece plunged to zero.http://www.local6.com/news/2846033/detail.html

Heavy
snow strands thousands across Europe
- January 29, 2004. Thousands of air and
rail passengers have been
left stranded and road traffic has been paralysed across Europe after
a cold snap brought heavy snow and bitterly cold temperatures from
London to Moscow.” “In
Belgium, heavy snowfall forced most flights to be delayed or cancelled
at Brussels international
airport.” “In Frankfurt, at least 20
flights were cancelled and dozens more were delayed due to
snow.”

“Thousands of drivers
shivered in their stationary cars as heavy snowfall across central
Tuscany cut Italy in two. Police closed the motorway between Bologna
and Florence, handing
out blankets and warm drinks to stranded
motorists. On the island of Sardinia, usually a sun-
drenched tourist
hot spot, electricity lines came down under the weight of ice.

“In
Britain, snowfall ranging from two to 28 cm (a half-inch to 11 inches)
blanketed most of the
, and temperatures dropped to minus 5C
(23 F) overnight. Roads were impassable in remote
areas, causing
scores of accidents and traffic jams.

“Conditions were also severe in the
Netherlands, “where snow, ice,
hail and driving winds hit morning rush hour traffic across the
country.”

Britain
is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime, says
a report
by the Independent UK news, January 25, 2004. New research has
uncovered “a
change "of remarkable amplitude" in the circulation of the
waters of the North Atlantic,”
says the report. This study “is being taken seriously by top
government scientists.”

“Similar
events in pre-history are known to have caused sudden
"flips" of the climate,”
the article continued, “bringing ice ages to northern Europe within
a few decades.
Britain and northern Europe are expected to switch abruptly to the
climate of Labrador.

Coldest January since 1875 - January 11, 2004: Temperatures in
Boston dropped to -3C, two
degrees colder than the previous record low
for January 10th set in 1875. Temperatures in
St. Johnsbury Vermont
fell to a record low of -27C. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/11012004news.shtml

Boston
also enduring record cold.With
Boston harbor freezing, the Coast Guard has sent in ice
breakers. If
this keeps up, ships carrying fuel oil will be unable to reach the
docks.

Temperatures
at
Boston's Logan International Airport plunged to 3 below zero yesterday
(January 10), two degrees
colder than the previous record for this
date set in 1875. Many other cities in the northeast saw record
lows,
including St. Johnsbury, Vermont, which recorded a bone-chilling minus
27 degrees.
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